At the Crossroads: Legal Overview and Best Practices for Managing the Intersection of Labor, Employment, and Safety

Presented by Rachel Conn, Megan Shaked, Kimberly Cole, and Andrea Chavez

An employer’s safety program can often touch on employment and labor law issues. Join our California team as we don both our labor & employment and safety hats and unpack the most common ways safety impacts the workplace beyond OSHA compliance.

Participants in this webinar will learn about:

• An overview of California wage and hour laws and the impact such requirements can have on a safety program, for example, requirements for rest breaks and heat illness prevention breaks, and restrictions on certain productivity requirements
• How to balance the requirements to enforce your safety program with best practices for managing performance and discipline in line with California employment laws
• Best practices for handling complaints and investigations in light of common protections against discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and whistleblowing
• When to consider the National Labor Relations Act, even in a non-union workplace
• When to get various players involved, including safety and health, human resources, legal, etc.